Writing the Disability Experience: Local authors reading from New Works - Chicago Sept 26th

Riva Lehrer

Riva Lehrer will be sharing excerpts from her memoir-in-progress “Golem Girl Gets Lucky.” Riva is best known as a portrait artist, curator, and educator. Her work focuses on issues of physical identity and the socially challenged body

Sarah Michael Hollenbeck will be reading from her essay “A Goldmine,” which compares and contrasts her experience of disability with that of local playwright and educator Todd Bauer. Sarah is a writer and storyteller, as well as the new co-owner of Women & Children First Bookstore. Todd will respond to Sarah?s essay after her reading.

Personal Assistants, Sign Language Interpreters and Audio Descriptions will be provided.

This event is brought to you by Access Living; Bodies of Work: Network of Disability Arts and Culture; Department of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago; and is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, and in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Friday, September 26, 2014 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Access Living115 W. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60654
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